Forecast Details for Chicopee, MA

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Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 67. North wind 6 to 8 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Tonight: A chance of showers, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. East wind 5 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Sunday: Showers. Patchy fog before 2pm. High near 62. Southwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Sunday Night: Showers likely before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 51. West wind 10 to 14 mph.

Monday Night: A slight chance of rain showers before 2am, then a slight chance of snow showers after 3am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday: A chance of rain and snow showers before 10am, then a chance of rain showers between 10am and 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. West wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 24. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 51. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 31. South wind around 7 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. South wind 6 to 14 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. South wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Southwest wind 6 to 8 mph.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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Precipitation in the form of water droplets is called rain. Rain generally has a tendency to fall with less intensity over a greater period of time, and when rainfall is more severe it is usually less sustained.

Rain is the most common form of precipitation and happens with greater frequency depending on the season and regional influences. Cities have been shown to have an observable effect on rainfall, due to an effect called the urban heat island. Compared to upwind, monthly rainfall between twenty and forty miles downwind of cities is 30% greater.

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Weather Topic: What is Sleet?

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Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones, and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.

The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is freezing rain.

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